Stormé DeLarverie

Stormé DeLarverie (c. December 24, 1920 – May 24, 2014) was an American known as the butch lesbian whose scuffle with police was, according to DeLarverie and many eyewitnesses, the spark that ignited the Stonewall uprising, spurring the crowd to action. Born in New Orleans, to an interracial couple, they (here referred to with a gender-neutral singular pronoun) are remembered as a gay civil rights icon and entertainer who performed and hosted at the Apollo Theater and Radio City Music Hall. They worked for much of their life as an MC, singer, bouncer, bodyguard, and volunteer street patrol worker, the last of which earned DeLarverie the moniker, "guardian of lesbians in the Village". They are known as "the Rosa Parks of the gay community."